The drama is a story that details the fall of the Sui Dynasty, and what it took to lead to the eventual rise of the Tang Dynasty.

An old homeless man sits on a bench, on the banks of the Grand Canal, and talks of love and life to a man with nothing to say.

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many magnificent historical palaces. The photographic work is unusually fine."

A Greek tragedy told in Chinese pop music. The tragic events of a boat captain trying to collect a debt to save his fleet of boats, as remembered by his ten year old son.

Based on mysterious legend of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In the first year of the reign of the empress Wu, she and all her officials went on a night tour of the Grand Canal, and thousands of people in Luoyang rushed to the Dragon Gate just to see the holy face.

View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series "Through Italy with the Bioscope" by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban.

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.

Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.